Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous research has linked sphingolipids with asthma. Patients with asthma had lower levels of sphingolipids ...

In the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), scientists are trying to understand how sphingolipids operate in the cells and how they can ...

The intake of a Western diet enriched in animal fat has been shown to be a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Previous rodent studies have indicated that these conditions may be ...

In a study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Europe analyzed the alterations of sphingolipids and their metabolizing enzymes in hospitalized or ...

Asthma is currently defined by reversible airflow obstruction, airway hyperreactivity, and airway inflammation. Of the three diagnostic criteria, asthma symptoms track most closely with airway ...

Researchers headed by a team at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) School of Life Sciences have made the first connection between muscular dystrophy (MD) and sphingolipids, a group of ...

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns. Fortunately, this ...

Sphingolipids are gaining strategic importance because they sit at the intersection of therapeutics, delivery science, and beauty biomimetics. In pharmaceuticals, their relevance is rising as research ...

Sphingolipids have been known for more than 120 years but, up to recently, they were thought to be molecules that simply complied with a structural function, acting, as it were, as the building blocks ...

Scientists have made a link between muscular dystrophy and a group of bioactive fats, the sphingolipids, which are involved in numerous cell functions and other diseases. In a new study, the group of ...